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| #6394 | | A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining
and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
-- Mark Twain
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| #6395 | | A classic is something that everyone wants to have read
and nobody wants to read.
-- Mark Twain, "The Disappearance of Literature"
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| #6396 | | A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!
-- Wm. Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
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| #6397 | | A hundred years from now it is very likely that [of Twain's works] "The
Jumping Frog" alone will be remembered.
-- Harry Thurston Peck (Editor of "The Bookman"), January 1901.
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| #6398 | | A is for Apple.
-- Hester Pryne
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| #6399 | | A kind of Batman of contemporary letters.
-- Philip Larkin on Anthony Burgess
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| #6400 | | A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
-- Wm. Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
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| #6401 | | A man was reading The Canterbury Tales one Saturday morning, when his
wife asked "What have you got there?" Replied he, "Just my cup and Chaucer."
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| #6402 | | ... A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he
was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
-- Mark Twain
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| #6403 | | A Tale of Two Cities LITE(tm)
-- by Charles Dickens
A lawyer who looks like a French Nobleman is executed in his place.
The Metamorphosis LITE(tm)
-- by Franz Kafka
A man turns into a bug and his family gets annoyed.
Lord of the Rings LITE(tm)
-- by J.R.R. Tolkien
Some guys take a long vacation to throw a ring into a volcano.
Hamlet LITE(tm)
-- by Wm. Shakespeare
A college student on vacation with family problems, a screwy
girl-friend and a mother who won't act her age.
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